Award-Winning
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Benedict Morelli

Benedict Morelli began his career in 1973 as a law clerk in a personal injury law firm,
becoming eligible for the bar exam in 1977. After being admitted to the
New York State Bar he became a partner and then senior partner of that
firm. Mr. Morelli has a degree from City College, NY 1971 and studied
law at New York Law School. He is admitted to the United States Supreme
Court as well as U.S. District Courts for the Southern, Eastern, Western,
and Northern districts of New York.

Mr. Morelli was a partner at his law firm since 1981 and a senior partner
since 1990. In June, 1998, Mr. Morelli dissolved his firm and started
Benedict P. Morelli & Associates, which later became Morelli Law Firm.

Mr. Morelli has been aggressively trying cases for over 35 years, during
which he has amassed countless multi-million dollar verdicts on behalf
of his clients. He has tried every kind of civil case – from a person
who tripped and fell over a raised door saddle and broke his hip ($2.6
million – the largest verdict in the country for that injury) to
complex medical malpractice cases (the largest verdict in the country
for blindness in one eye). He has attained the largest verdict for a loss
of three fingers (medical malpractice) and the largest verdict for a crush
injury to the arm.

In 2011, Mr. Morelli was lead counsel in a sexual harassment trial in Federal
Court in the Southern District of Illinois and received a $95 million
verdict (the largest single-plaintiff sexual harassment verdict in history.)

In 2010, Mr. Morelli was lead counsel in a polio vaccine case which had
been filed thirty years earlier and received a $22.5 million verdict (the
largest verdict in Supreme Court in Staten Island, NY history.) It was
also the largest vaccine verdict in U.S. history.

In 1995, his $40 million dollar verdict was featured in the National Law
Journal as one of the "Top Ten Verdicts" in the United States.

In addition to trying cases, Mr. Morelli is a past President of the New
York State Trial Lawyers Association and sustaining member and governor
of the American Association for Justice, emeritus on the Board of Directors
of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association, advocate rank in the
American Board of Trial Advocates, member of the New York State Bar Association,
American Bar Association, New York County Lawyer's Association, National
Employment Lawyers Association, and past president of the Brooklyn-Manhattan
Trial Lawyers Association.

Mr. Morelli has been listed in Best Lawyers in America continuously from
1997 through the present edition. He has also been selected by the New
York State Trial Lawyers Association as one of New York's "Superstars."

For two seasons, Mr. Morelli was a regular on the nationally syndicated
television show "Power of Attorney." He has also appeared as
a guest on "The Today Show," "Good Morning America,"
"Aaron Brown," "Anderson Cooper 360," "Dateline
NBC," "The View," "The Amanda Lewis Show," and
"Court TV." Additionally a five page feature article entitled
"Benedict Morelli Feels Your Pain" was published in a 1999 edition
of New York Magazine.

He has taught and lectured for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy,
Association of Trial Lawyers of the City of New York, New York State Bar
Association ("Proving Damages in a Civil Trial"), and the New
York State Trial Lawyers Association ("New York Superstars,"
"Trial Advocacy Workshop," "Summations," and "Cross-Examination").
Mr. Morelli was called upon to represent the plaintiff's bar to counsel
insurance executives on how to resolve cases.

Mr. Morelli was selected as a member of the plaintiff's steering committee
of the MDL in the Avandia drug litigation, which is venued in the Eastern
District Federal Court of Philadelphia. Furthermore, he was selected as
lead trial counsel on one of the first two cases to be tried in that court.

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